CES excess
In January, gambling in Las Vegas goes beyond the casinos: Oodles of vendors bet that their product will be attention-grabbing enough to both attract press coverage and client spending. we tend to found a couple of highlights worth our attention—and yours: there were speaker systems for the shower and scales for your baby, portable radiation detectors (if you are worried that your backyard is particularly radioactive) and creepy pseudo-sentient iOS robots, iPad microphones and robotic Bluetooth bunnies, and even a remote-controlled flying drone or 2.
Oh, and just for smart live, a pressure-sensitive iOS stylus from Adonit. we tend to conjointly reported on a slew of Thunderbolt accessories (finally!), an AirPlay amp from Griffin, and a trio of keyboards from Matias which will management either your Mac or your iPhone with the flick of a switch. but the 900 pound gorilla within the CES showroom was literally a 900 pound iPod dock.
In fact, there were such a lot of things to see and write concerning, we tend to eventually took a fast reprieve and podcasted concerning CES instead.
Apple events new and previous
Apple announced that it'll host an education-themed event early next week. So, in response, we tend to made some educated guesses concerning just what Apple may announce.
We conjointly took time to recall another Apple event—one from five years ago, whereby Steve Jobs told us that Apple would announce a cell phone, a touch-screen iPod, and an online communications device. (Spoiler alert for those freshly out of comas and setting out to resume life by reading this Wrap: It wasn’t 3 separate devices.) Jason Snell was there, and he was one amongst the first people outside of Apple to touch the iPhone. He remembers it fondly.
Mac tips and tricks
Are you a Mac power user, or aspiring to be one? Don’t miss our tips on using Disk Utility for easy encryption or enabling the ability to copy text from QuickLook previews. we tend to conjointly place along an exciting two-part series on a way to use OS X’s services, and 4 great such services that you most likely did not comprehend. Of course, if you already browse that article, now you are doing comprehend them. but that’s beside the point.
This week’s Macworld video tip explained a way to use Fluid to make a Gmail app on your Mac.
And if you’re searching for different interesting software for your Mac, note that there’s a new Lightroom beta from Adobe. And if a Lightroom-edited image is worth a thousand words, you can compose and preview those words in Marked, one among our latest Mac Gems.
iOS, oh yes
No Weekly Wrap would be complete without together with highlights from our coverage of all things iPhone and iPad. Amazon unveiled an iPad-optimized Kindle Store. Hipmunk updated its flight search app to incorporate hotels similarly.
Macworld editor Philip Michaels wrote up fascinating technology that permits Stanford sports fans to observe instant replays on their mobile devices, from the stands.
And, as always, we wrote up a variety of different apps:
-Image Blender—It’s manner, manner better than Image Cuisinart.
-W.E.L.D.E.R—We gave it five mice. should you get it? Well, derrrr!
-Jelly Defense—Apparently, Jelly mixes with your iPhone simply similarly because it will with peanut butter.
-Shazam Player—Fret not, it's nothing to try to to with that movie starring Shaquille O’Neal.
-Summly—It’s an app that tries to summarize longer text for you to scan at a glance. Suddenly, I feel like my job is threatened.
But till Summly takes over Weekly Wrap duties, it’s still my beat. We’ll be back once more next Saturday, unless our robot overlords decide otherwise.
